Nothing can equal the consternation produced by this event. This morning Brookfield, who had preached a very fine sermon without any referen...

The last two days have been excessively warm. Thermometer on the north porch at 100 on each day. A slight breeze from the west makes this da...

London . I came back yesterday, and this morning heard that the Cabinet had decided, on the advice of the law officers, that the act of the ...

London . The 'Persia' arrived at Queenstown yesterday, having left New York on the 20th. The American newspapers are full of quotati...

There was yesterday no meeting of the Cabinet. This morning the members were notified to meet at twelve meridian. All were punctually on han...

Only three of us at the Cabinet meeting. Speed is attending the Court. The others absent, as usual, without cause, and the course pursued su...

The Wilkes court martial found him guilty on all charges and sentenced him to three years’ suspension and a reprimand. It is a light punish...

The Wilkes court martial has closed its labors. The proceedings have not been reported, but, as the members are anxious to get home, I have...

Adjourned the Wilkes court martial to-day until Monday, the 18th inst. The testimony is all in, and the case will go to judgment as soon as...

The Wilkes court martial moves slowly. Thus far I have no reason to be dissatisfied with the court. Wilkes himself strives to make it a per...

A very busy day, and I am very indifferently well to discharge the mass of business; but got through with it before 5 P.m. Am surprised tha...

I am pressing on the matter of Wilkes. He and his family are moving to extricate him from the results of his own insubordination and folly....

Am perplexed about charges and specifications against Wilkes. His conduct has been bad, — such as will perhaps break him. I think it might,...

Stanton tells some curious matters of Jeff Davis, derived from Davis's servant, who escaped from Richmond. The servant was a slave, bor...

The case of R. [L.] Law tried by court martial, which has been in my hands for a month nearly, was disposed of to-day. The court found him ...

Wrote Commodore Wilkes that his denial was not sufficiently explicit; that innocent parties were implicated in the publication of his lette...

There was a reception to-day from one to three at the President's. Went over for an hour. Several of the Cabinet, most of the foreign...

Had a letter from Commodore Wilkes Monday evening, complaining that injustice was done him in my Annual Report. The letter was studiously i...

Head Quarters Department of Virginia Seventh Army Corps Fort Monroe, Va. Mch. 7th 1863 Sir: I am extremely unwilling to trouble y...

And now (Nov 27) Count Gurouski 65 tells me   that Prentice 66 has come out, in bitter denunciation of Cameron — in   shape of a Washingt...